Visit the Space Gallery page to learn more about the artifacts and exhibits in this gallery.American soldiers who deceived the enemy or served with the Ghost Army during the final two years of World War II have left this world, but their spirits march on in military folklore and on the walls of museums that portray their ingenuity and courage.Īn exhibit at the Nevada Museum of Art in Reno, “Ghost Army: The Combat Con Artists of World War II,” ends July 23 after a five-month run. A range of satellites and related items showcase the Air Force’s vast reconnaissance, early warning, communications and other space-based capabilities. The gallery also includes a Titan IVB space launch vehicle, Mercury, Gemini and Apollo spacecraft, and many other NASA artifacts and a variety of astronaut equipment.
As a major exhibit component of that gallery, visitors will be able to walk onto a full-size representation of a NASA space shuttle payload bay and look inside the CCT-1 cockpit and mid-deck areas.
The Allan and Malcolm Lockheed and Glenn Martin Space Gallery showcases the Space Shuttle Exhibit featuring NASA’s first Crew Compartment Trainer (CCT-1), a high-fidelity representation of a space shuttle crew station used primarily for on-orbit crew training and engineering evaluations. One system that NASA Glenn developed was a series of small thrusters that would help keep the satellite in precise position in orbit. The USAF and NASA Lewis (now Glenn) Research Center, Cleveland, OH, worked together on important aspects of spacecraft P80-1, which was to carry the Teal Ruby sensor and other experimental equipment. In the late 1970s, Teal Ruby featured new technology, now used in digital cameras, enabling it to continuously image large areas for long periods. Along with the telescope, the graphite epoxy barrel houses gyroscopes, cooling equipment and electronics. The Teal Ruby telescope is inside the white barrel-shaped object facing the forward end of the museum's Space Shuttle Exhibit. This satellite, known as spacecraft P80-1, carried an experimental infrared telescope code named “Teal Ruby.” Designed to detect heat, Teal Ruby was meant to give early warning of enemy aircraft crossing the polar region toward the United States during the Cold War.
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